RE: Why is Fedora not a Free GNU/Linux distributions?

2008-08-02 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Tue, 2008-07-22 at 11:58 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Antonio Olivares To cat the free fish living in the sea, Les will need more than a free boat. He will also need Nets, snip He does need much more? Yes GNU provides these things, but he does not want to give

Misunderstanding GPL's terms and conditions as restrictions (was: Re: Why is Fedora not a Free GNU/Linux distributions?)

2008-07-27 Thread Alexandre Oliva
I'm changing the Subject: header because some people who are not reading the thread seem to have inferred, from the unchanging subject, that the original huge thread was all about a single topic. Although this particular topic would probably be a better fit for fedora-legal, I believe most of its

Misunderstanding GPL's terms and conditions as restrictions (was: Re: Why is Fedora not a Free GNU/Linux distributions?)

2008-07-27 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Jul 26, 2008, Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gordon Messmer wrote: In the context of a legal interpretation of a distribution license (copyright license), work as a whole does not mean each individual part. Of course it does, or proprietary parts could be included - or linkages

Re: Misunderstanding GPL's terms and conditions as restrictions (was: Re: Why is Fedora not a Free GNU/Linux distributions?)

2008-07-27 Thread Antonio Olivares
I'm changing the Subject: header because some people who are not reading the thread seem to have inferred, from the unchanging subject, that the original huge thread was all about a single topic. Although this particular topic would probably be a better fit for fedora-legal, I believe

Re: Misunderstanding GPL's terms and conditions as restrictions (was: Re: Why is Fedora not a Free GNU/Linux distributions?)

2008-07-27 Thread Gordon Messmer
Antonio Olivares wrote: I have gotten more of an insight on this issue and I have to say that although you have many good points, Les has very good points as well. I have gotten some input regarding issues with GPL. ... /* name withheld to protect the identity of this previous GPL author */

Re: Misunderstanding GPL's terms and conditions as restrictions (was: Re: Why is Fedora not a Free GNU/Linux distributions?)

2008-07-27 Thread Les Mikesell
Antonio Olivares wrote: I know I will hear some comments, but these are some of the reasons why many developers try to avoid the GPL. Here's probably the strongest case against it. The GPL is an universal receiver of software from other licenses but it does not allow GPL code to move

Re: Why is Fedora not a Free GNU/Linux distributions?

2008-07-27 Thread Ric Moore
On Sat, 2008-07-26 at 10:29 -0700, Antonio Olivares wrote: which is an interesting read as well. Here's a quote taken directly from it if you add 'large pieces of originality' to the code which are valid for copyright protection on their own, you may choose to put a different and separate

Re: Misunderstanding GPL's terms and conditions as restrictions (was: Re: Why is Fedora not a Free GNU/Linux distributions?)

2008-07-27 Thread Gordon Messmer
Antonio Olivares wrote: Here's an example of a case that the GPL has not helped the original author http://www.linux.com/feature/57131 The case is still pending :(, but pretty much the abusers or bad guys can get away with a great deal. This is unfortunate to the original authors despite

Re: SHUT THE F*CK UP ALREADY!!! Re: Why is Fedora not a Free GNU/Linux distributions?

2008-07-27 Thread Ed Greshko
Nothing is said that has not been said before. Terence Roman comic dramatist (185 BC - 159 BC) -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list

Re: Why is Fedora not a Free GNU/Linux distributions?

2008-07-26 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Jul 26, 2008, Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alexandre Oliva wrote: 2. You may [...] provided that you also meet all of these conditions There's no room to interpret that as saying or some other license you found on some web page There's no denying of this possibility, and

Re: Why is Fedora not a Free GNU/Linux distributions?

2008-07-26 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Jul 26, 2008, Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Your wording is too ambiguous and you associate unusual politics with some of those words so I have no idea what you intend. Tell me which words, and I'll point out they're present in the GPL as well, and you don't seem to have any trouble

Re: Why is Fedora not a Free GNU/Linux distributions?

2008-07-26 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Jul 24, 2008, Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alexandre Oliva wrote: it has always been immoral to demand that others give up their rights. Taking away legitimate rights, yes, that would be immoral. Taking away any right is immoral. Like, let's say, taking away one's right to

Re: Why is Fedora not a Free GNU/Linux distributions?

2008-07-26 Thread Les Mikesell
Alexandre Oliva wrote: it has always been immoral to demand that others give up their rights. Taking away legitimate rights, yes, that would be immoral. Taking away any right is immoral. Like, let's say, taking away one's right to own slaves? Red Herring! 'I' don't/can't take away

Re: Why is Fedora not a Free GNU/Linux distributions?

2008-07-26 Thread Gordon Messmer
Les Mikesell wrote: Alexandre Oliva wrote: Please stop spreading misinformation. That's funny - remember this post is in response to my exact quote of the license section 2b. Do you really consider what the license actually say as misinformation? The terms of the license aren't

Re: Why is Fedora not a Free GNU/Linux distributions?

2008-07-26 Thread Les Mikesell
Alexandre Oliva wrote: Your wording is too ambiguous and you associate unusual politics with some of those words so I have no idea what you intend. Tell me which words, and I'll point out they're present in the GPL as well, and you don't seem to have any trouble (mis)interpreting it. Yes,

Re: Why is Fedora not a Free GNU/Linux distributions?

2008-07-26 Thread Les Mikesell
Gordon Messmer wrote: Please stop spreading misinformation. That's funny - remember this post is in response to my exact quote of the license section 2b. Do you really consider what the license actually say as misinformation? The terms of the license aren't misinformation; your

Re: Why is Fedora not a Free GNU/Linux distributions?

2008-07-26 Thread Antonio Olivares
Please stop spreading misinformation. That's funny - remember this post is in response to my exact quote of the license section 2b. Do you really consider what the license actually say as misinformation? The terms of the license aren't misinformation; your uninformed

Re: Why is Fedora not a Free GNU/Linux distributions?

2008-07-26 Thread Les Mikesell
Antonio Olivares wrote: If you want an analogy: BSD is like the girl who sleeps with everybody. She gets a lot of sex and is invited to every party, but nobody respects her. GPL is like the girl who is selective about her partners. She doesn't have quite as much fun and has earned herself a

Re: Why is Fedora not a Free GNU/Linux distributions?

2008-07-26 Thread Les Mikesell
Gordon Messmer wrote: Les Mikesell wrote: The context is that it is a part of what you must agree to do if you want to do anything with _every_ GPL-encumbered work that copyright law alone would not permit. That statement is a little ambiguous. The GPL does not have any power which

Re: Why is Fedora not a Free GNU/Linux distributions?

2008-07-26 Thread Antonio Olivares
There is nothing to interpret. If you don't like what the license actually says, why do you keep defending it? He might defend the good parts of the license :) I preferred not to respond to Les because he insists on putting words in my mouth. In fact, I do like what the GPL

Re: Why is Fedora not a Free GNU/Linux distributions?

2008-07-26 Thread Gordon Messmer
Antonio Olivares wrote: I respect your stance on the license issue. In fact I would agree that most of the parts are good. Many projects use the license which shows that it is not totally bad. There are however certain restrictions and gotchas. For instance in the Open Source Definitions

Re: Why is Fedora not a Free GNU/Linux distributions?

2008-07-26 Thread Gordon Messmer
Les Mikesell wrote: Gordon Messmer wrote: That statement is a little ambiguous. The GPL does not have any power which copyright law does not grant. Specifically, it can not change the terms of work licensed under any terms other than its own and it can not force you to accept any other or

Re: Why is Fedora not a Free GNU/Linux distributions?

2008-07-26 Thread Les Mikesell
Gordon Messmer wrote: The GPL doesn't change terms on anything else and I've never implied that it can or does. You have repeatedly insisted exactly that. I've stated that is the practical effect, but the license can only control your actions, not anyone else's terms. You are only given

Re: Why is Fedora not a Free GNU/Linux distributions?

2008-07-25 Thread Les Mikesell
Gordon Messmer wrote: Any code under a compatible license can be combined with GPL code. The GPL applies to the work as a whole, but does not remove the license from the other parts which are under compatible licenses. They can be removed from the GPLed work and reused under their

Re: Why is Fedora not a Free GNU/Linux distributions?

2008-07-25 Thread Antonio Olivares
Why are they filling up the stacks with discussing on this topic. Because many users on the list consider it very important. Yes there might be other issues equally important like global warming and World Peace, but that is beyond the scope of this mailing list. There are many other needy

Re: Why is Fedora not a Free GNU/Linux distributions?

2008-07-25 Thread BRUCE STANLEY
--- Mikkel L. Ellertson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Craig White wrote: I gather Mikkel, that this means that you have moved from the sidelines of criticizing the pointlessness of this thread to participation. Craig No really. I was just trying to add a bit of humor to it. I have no

Re: Why is Fedora not a Free GNU/Linux distributions?

2008-07-25 Thread Les Mikesell
BRUCE STANLEY wrote: Why don't we all just agree that Stallman and the FSF are the Borg and the GPL is the elixir used to assimilate software (and people). Resistance is futile. ;-) Because when your license is strictly a limitation on the way your product can be improved, your

Re: Why is Fedora not a Free GNU/Linux distributions?

2008-07-25 Thread Antonio Olivares
Why don't we all just agree that Stallman and the FSF are the Borg and the GPL is the elixir used to assimilate software (and people). Resistance is futile. ;-) Because when your license is strictly a limitation on the way your product can be improved, your competitor

Re: Why is Fedora not a Free GNU/Linux distributions?

2008-07-25 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Jul 25, 2008, ksh shrm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is philosophical, spread ur technical knowledge. Do you have any reason to believe that technical knowledge is more important for society than philosophical knowledge? Nevermind that the subthread you entered was about legal knowledge,

Re: Why is Fedora not a Free GNU/Linux distributions?

2008-07-24 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 10:29:26PM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: In general the terms I'm speaking of are more permissive than the GPL and the GPL is the one that was intentionally incompatible, but that's not the point. The point is that the work-as-a-whole clause is an immoral

Re: Why is Fedora not a Free GNU/Linux distributions?

2008-07-24 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 11:34:44PM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: Alexandre Oliva wrote: But you must give up your freedom and rights or you are unable to participate in distributing these things as part of a work that contains any GPL-covered material. The or denounces your syllogism. The must

Re: Why is Fedora not a Free GNU/Linux distributions?

2008-07-24 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Jul 24, 2008, Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alexandre Oliva wrote: it has always been immoral to demand that others give up their rights. Taking away legitimate rights, yes, that would be immoral. But taking away Immoral rights, that serve the purpose of exerting power over others

Re: Why is Fedora not a Free GNU/Linux distributions?

2008-07-24 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Jul 24, 2008, Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alexandre Oliva wrote: 1. a grant of rights cannot possibly impose restrictions to whatever you could do before you received those rights. It's a grant, so it adds. It's not a contract, so it can't take away. Per wikipedia, there are

Re: Why is Fedora not a Free GNU/Linux distributions?

2008-07-24 Thread Gordon Messmer
Les Mikesell wrote: Gordon Messmer wrote: In accepting it's terms you give up your freedom to distribute any part of the work under different terms, including any of your own that you might want to add. Since you never had any such freedom under copyright law, you aren't giving anything

Re: Why is Fedora not a Free GNU/Linux distributions?

2008-07-24 Thread Les Mikesell
Alexandre Oliva wrote: it has always been immoral to demand that others give up their rights. Taking away legitimate rights, yes, that would be immoral. Taking away any right is immoral. But taking away Immoral rights, that serve the purpose of exerting power over others and taking

Re: Why is Fedora not a Free GNU/Linux distributions?

2008-07-24 Thread Les Mikesell
Gordon Messmer wrote: Les Mikesell wrote: Its not that simple. Say you receive a copy of a mostly bsd-origin work previously modified by adding a few GPL-covered lines and applying the GPL to the whole as required for #3 at that step. You now agree to the GPL terms in order to be permitted

Re: Why is Fedora not a Free GNU/Linux distributions?

2008-07-24 Thread Les Mikesell
Gordon Messmer wrote: The GPL allows you additional rights: you may distribute the work to others. The GPL only allows those rights under limited conditions. Standard EULAs give you *no* additional rights, and furthermore restrict how you can use the software that you received. The

Re: Why is Fedora not a Free GNU/Linux distributions?

2008-07-24 Thread Antonio Olivares
it has always been immoral to demand that others give up their rights. Taking away legitimate rights, yes, that would be immoral. Taking away any right is immoral. So you are saying that commercial, closed source, software is immoral. So selling the software instead of giving

Re: Why is Fedora not a Free GNU/Linux distributions?

2008-07-24 Thread Gordon Messmer
Les Mikesell wrote: One person should not have to bear the development cost of something that could be widely used. But there is no fair mechanism to share it with GPL-covered code. So, you're arguing that it's not fair that you should have to write your own code when GPLed software is

Re: Why is Fedora not a Free GNU/Linux distributions?

2008-07-24 Thread Les Mikesell
Gordon Messmer wrote: I strongly recommend that you read: http://www.softwarefreedom.org/resources/2007/gpl-non-gpl-collaboration.html Not necessarily, because it can't be included unless the GPL applies. Any code under a compatible license can be combined with GPL code. The GPL

Re: Why is Fedora not a Free GNU/Linux distributions?

2008-07-24 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Les Mikesell wrote: Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Taking away legitimate rights, yes, that would be immoral. Taking away any right is immoral. So you are saying that commercial, closed source, software is immoral. So selling the software instead of giving it away is also immoral. For one I

Re: Why is Fedora not a Free GNU/Linux distributions?

2008-07-24 Thread Alan Cox
elaborate so I can show that your attack is based on false premises. Its not an attack. The GPLv3 is slanted against certain uses. I happen to think that is a *good* thing so I'm hardly attacking you. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe:

Re: Why is Fedora not a Free GNU/Linux distributions?

2008-07-24 Thread Craig White
On Thu, 2008-07-24 at 17:52 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Les Mikesell wrote: Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Taking away legitimate rights, yes, that would be immoral. Taking away any right is immoral. So you are saying that commercial, closed source, software is immoral. So

Re: Why is Fedora not a Free GNU/Linux distributions?

2008-07-23 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 06:30:14PM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote: The terms of a license have nothing to do with copyright law. You can agree to anything in a license as long as it isn't actually illegal. An exclusion of copyright rules is simply what you get

Re: Why is Fedora not a Free GNU/Linux distributions?

2008-07-23 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Jul 22, 2008, Antonio Olivares [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I do not understand here, why some licenses are compatible and which ones are not. License compatibiliy analysis requires looking into the permissions and conditions established by each license, and looking for conflicts between them.

Re: Why is Fedora not a Free GNU/Linux distributions?

2008-07-23 Thread Les Mikesell
Alexandre Oliva wrote: Those are not (pure) licenses, those are license agreements. Agreements as in contracts. Contracts are meeting of minds and mutual obligations. The GPL is a unilateral grant of rights. Not even close. You must accept it or you are not free to redistribute existing

Re: Why is Fedora not a Free GNU/Linux distributions?

2008-07-23 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Jul 23, 2008, Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gordon Messmer wrote: You do have the freedom and right to license your own work under any terms you want. Nope. You have that legal right, but you're only operating within your freedom as long as your choice respects others' freedom.

Re: Why is Fedora not a Free GNU/Linux distributions?

2008-07-23 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Jul 23, 2008, Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alexandre Oliva wrote: Your freedom to distribute the improvement is respected by the GPL, but not by the combination of the licenses you accepted. Why do you consider that acceptable? It's undesirable, indeed, but what's to stop

Re: *News Flash* Why is Fedora not a Free GNU/Linux distributions?

2008-07-23 Thread jdow
From: Patrick O'Callaghan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 2008, July 22 04:57 On Tue, 2008-07-22 at 10:35 +0200, Andrew Kelly wrote: On Tue, 2008-07-22 at 11:34 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: CNN reports that leading climatologists and Al Gore have confirms that all the hot air on this thread

Re: Why is Fedora not a Free GNU/Linux distributions?

2008-07-22 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Jul 21, 2008, Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alexandre Oliva wrote: For me it means using/reusing/improving freely-available, well-tested code in all possible situations. And where did you get this idea that this is what Free (and|or) Open Source Software are about? That's what

Re: Why is Fedora not a Free GNU/Linux distributions?

2008-07-22 Thread Les Mikesell
Alexandre Oliva wrote: but if you've agreed to the GPL terms covering that copy, you have agreed not to Again, think dual licensing. The phrase: nothing else grants you permission to modify or distribute the Program or its derivative works. Yes, so if you want to distribute a copy

Re: *News Flash* Why is Fedora not a Free GNU/Linux distributions?

2008-07-22 Thread Andrew Kelly
On Tue, 2008-07-22 at 11:34 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: CNN reports that leading climatologists and Al Gore have confirms that all the hot air on this thread is accelerating global warming. Al Gore, Al Gore, that rings a bell. Isn't he that guy who invented that internetwork whachacallit? Heeza

Re: Why is Fedora not a Free GNU/Linux distributions?

2008-07-22 Thread Andrew Kelly
On Tue, 2008-07-22 at 14:54 +0930, Tim wrote: On Mon, 2008-07-21 at 21:47 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: the GPL is the one that most often does not permit freedom compared to any other set of combinations Just because it doesn't permit the freedom that *you* want to exploit... All

Re: *News Flash* Why is Fedora not a Free GNU/Linux distributions?

2008-07-22 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Tue, 2008-07-22 at 10:35 +0200, Andrew Kelly wrote: On Tue, 2008-07-22 at 11:34 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: CNN reports that leading climatologists and Al Gore have confirms that all the hot air on this thread is accelerating global warming. Al Gore, Al Gore, that rings a bell. Isn't he

RE: Why is Fedora not a Free GNU/Linux distributions?

2008-07-22 Thread Antonio Olivares
To cat the free fish living in the sea, Les will need more than a free boat. He will also need Nets, snip He does need much more? Yes GNU provides these things, but he does not want to give credit to them :( His company is Les Fishery Inc., Not Les/GNU Fishery Inc.

Re: Why is Fedora not a Free GNU/Linux distributions?

2008-07-22 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Jul 22, 2008, Antonio Olivares [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: if he decides to make changes and distribute them, i.e, sell to other fisherman, then he must make those changes available back to GNU I realize this is meant to be funny, rather than factually correct (mixing up GPL with GNU, for

Re: SHUT THE F*CK UP ALREADY!!! Re: Why is Fedora not a Free GNU/Linux distributions?

2008-07-22 Thread John Cornelius
g wrote: Ed Greshko wrote: snip Sure, why not? They all make about the same level of sense. true. but, more sense than the *one* who got these 3 going. Oh, that is SO cruel! --jc -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe:

Re: Why is Fedora not a Free GNU/Linux distributions?

2008-07-22 Thread Les Mikesell
Alexandre Oliva wrote: Yes, so if you want to distribute a copy under the GPL, you must agree to its terms, which then cover the entire work. But that does not take away any other rights you might have as to specific parts. Rights aren't the issue. The question is whether you agree to the

Re: Why is Fedora not a Free GNU/Linux distributions?

2008-07-22 Thread Les Mikesell
Antonio Olivares wrote: If a person releases some code like that, he has to supply the source at a resonable cost of copying any time for the following 3 years? It's generally easier to just give the source along with the binaries. But if you don't, the GPL requires the written 3-year

Re: Why is Fedora not a Free GNU/Linux distributions?

2008-07-22 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Jul 22, 2008, Antonio Olivares [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just like the Mepis/Zenwalk examples I used previously in the thread, they modified the code and released it, yet they were not releasing the changes/what they modified back to the community. They didn't have to. All the GPL required

Re: Why is Fedora not a Free GNU/Linux distributions?

2008-07-22 Thread Antonio Olivares
Just like the Mepis/Zenwalk examples I used previously in the thread, they modified the code and released it, yet they were not releasing the changes/what they modified back to the community. They didn't have to. All the GPL required of them that they allegedly didn't do was to

Re: Why is Fedora not a Free GNU/Linux distributions?

2008-07-22 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 01:37:51PM -0700, Antonio Olivares wrote: Someone came out against them, just search Distrowatch. That they did not fully comply with the GPL? (...) Someone did/or other opposing distros that did not want those distros to get the attention that they were getting.

Re: Why is Fedora not a Free GNU/Linux distributions?

2008-07-22 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Jul 22, 2008, Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alexandre Oliva wrote: Yes, so if you want to distribute a copy under the GPL, you must agree to its terms, which then cover the entire work. But that does not take away any other rights you might have as to specific parts. Rights

Re: Why is Fedora not a Free GNU/Linux distributions?

2008-07-22 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 02:36:56PM -0700, Antonio Olivares wrote: I guess you don't want to read. That kernel is called Linux. I'd be as pissed off as Linus if Stallman wanted to call the kernel GNU/Linux when the kernel is called Linux. But Stallman is *not* doing that, he's

Re: Why is Fedora not a Free GNU/Linux distributions?

2008-07-22 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 03:29:34PM -0700, Antonio Olivares wrote: Why is it a mistake? All I said is that people should call it the way they want to, if underneath the layers of software resides the linux kernel with/without the GNU utilites. Like others have said on this list, they should

Re: Why is Fedora not a Free GNU/Linux distributions?

2008-07-22 Thread Les Mikesell
Alexandre Oliva wrote: Yes, so if you want to distribute a copy under the GPL, you must agree to its terms, which then cover the entire work. But that does not take away any other rights you might have as to specific parts. Rights aren't the issue. Of course they are. A license is a

Re: Why is Fedora not a Free GNU/Linux distributions?

2008-07-22 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 05:42:58PM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: The terms of a license have nothing to do with copyright law. You can agree to anything in a license as long as it isn't actually illegal. An exclusion of copyright rules is simply what you get in return. With the GNU GPL you

Re: Why is Fedora not a Free GNU/Linux distributions?

2008-07-22 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Jul 22, 2008, Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Licenses often impose terms you must meet as a condition of granting those rights. Those are not (pure) licenses, those are license agreements. Agreements as in contracts. Contracts are meeting of minds and mutual obligations. The GPL is

Re: Why is Fedora not a Free GNU/Linux distributions?

2008-07-22 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Jul 22, 2008, Antonio Olivares [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Like others have said on this list, they should call it whatever they consider is best. Do you think it's just fine if I call you Florisvaldo Azeitonares? What if people started a campaign and got a lot of people to call you like that,

Re: Why is Fedora not a Free GNU/Linux distributions?

2008-07-22 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Jul 22, 2008, Antonio Olivares [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The code is available for free from some places, is that a sufficient condition? Not for GPLv2. For GPLv3, it is, but the responsibility of ensuring people who get the binaries can get the sources still lies with the distributor of

Re: Why is Fedora not a Free GNU/Linux distributions?

2008-07-22 Thread Antonio Olivares
I don't understand what you're questioning here. Could you please rephrase or elaborate? I do not understand here, why some licenses are compatible and which ones are not. For instance, the Mozilla Public License is incompatible with the GPL and we can see Mozilla firefox and/or

Re: Why is Fedora not a Free GNU/Linux distributions?

2008-07-22 Thread Antonio Olivares
If you can read Portuguese (from your name, perhaps you can), please have a look at http://fsfla.org/svnwiki/blogs/lxo/pub/gplv3-novidades and http://fsfla.org/svnwiki/blogs/lxo/pub/copyleft, it may help understand the reasoning behind the conditions of the GPL, if its preamble doesn't

Re: Why is Fedora not a Free GNU/Linux distributions?

2008-07-22 Thread Les Mikesell
Alexandre Oliva wrote: Licenses often impose terms you must meet as a condition of granting those rights. Those are not (pure) licenses, those are license agreements. Agreements as in contracts. Contracts are meeting of minds and mutual obligations. The GPL is a unilateral grant of rights.

Re: Why is Fedora not a Free GNU/Linux distributions?

2008-07-21 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Jul 21, 2008, Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Agreed that there is next to no chance for enforcement in such a case, but does your reading of the GPL not indicate that non-GPL distribution of copies of anything ever covered by its work-as-a-whole provision is prohibited? Yep, my

Re: Why is Fedora not a Free GNU/Linux distributions?

2008-07-21 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Jul 21, 2008, Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alexandre Oliva wrote: Several times, you end up having to decide between promoting software freedom and promoting the software that happens to be Free (and OSS). Yes, the divisive nature of the GPL is unfortunate. FYI, the GPL (and

Re: Why is Fedora not a Free GNU/Linux distributions?

2008-07-21 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Jul 21, 2008, Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please show how something can include any GPL-covered work, yet be distributed under different terms if you insist on claiming that. Rahul Sundaram wrote: I don't have to show anything like that. You don't, but why make such a claim

Re: Why is Fedora not a Free GNU/Linux distributions?

2008-07-21 Thread Les Mikesell
Alexandre Oliva wrote: Depending on whether you're guided by FS or OSS values, you'll tend to consistently choose one in detriment of the other. Yes, that is unfortunate, but you have to live with it to promote FOSS. This is fundamentally contradictory. If you have to choose between

Re: Why is Fedora not a Free GNU/Linux distributions?

2008-07-21 Thread Ed Greshko
Les Mikesell wrote: Not at all. The more choices you have the better. You can only go forward. I keep telling my wife that But she doesn't buy it. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list

Re: Why is Fedora not a Free GNU/Linux distributions?

2008-07-21 Thread Les Mikesell
Alexandre Oliva wrote: Please show how something can include any GPL-covered work, yet be distributed under different terms if you insist on claiming that. Rahul Sundaram wrote: I don't have to show anything like that. You don't, but why make such a claim when you obviously can't back

Re: Why is Fedora not a Free GNU/Linux distributions?

2008-07-21 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Jul 21, 2008, Ed Greshko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Les Mikesell wrote: Not at all. The more choices you have the better. You can only go forward. I keep telling my wife that But she doesn't buy it. She does. She just doesn't tell you about it :-P :-D -- Alexandre Oliva

Re: Why is Fedora not a Free GNU/Linux distributions?

2008-07-21 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Jul 21, 2008, Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alexandre Oliva wrote: I think you're pasting each other. The question is just not related with the sub-topic at hand, and it's ambiguous. Heh. -ENOENGLISH. s/pasting/talking past/ This part of the conversation started with someone

Re: Why is Fedora not a Free GNU/Linux distributions?

2008-07-21 Thread Les Mikesell
Alexandre Oliva wrote: Alexandre Oliva wrote: This is fundamentally contradictory. If you have to choose between these two, you're choosing between promoting either FS or OSS. It is a problem the GPL creates. That's a red herring. The GPL has *zero* to do with it. If we didn't have

Re: Why is Fedora not a Free GNU/Linux distributions?

2008-07-21 Thread Phil Meyer
Les Mikesell wrote: ... It is only difficult to escape when equal/better choices don't exist. One of the reasons those other choices might not exist is that licenses that only permit code re-use under restrictive conditions like the GPL have prevented them from being created. Wow, some

Re: Why is Fedora not a Free GNU/Linux distributions?

2008-07-21 Thread Les Mikesell
Alexandre Oliva wrote: Some licenses do allow their own terms to be replaced by the GPL, True, but these are very rare. GNU LGPL and the Brazilian LPG-AP v2, so far unpublished, are the only examples that come to mind. Most licenses that are compatible with the GPL are compatible just

Re: Why is Fedora not a Free GNU/Linux distributions?

2008-07-21 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Jul 21, 2008, Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alexandre Oliva wrote: but it's a one way trip and that copy of such code no longer has its original license terms. Can you back this up? All the evidence I've got suggests the exact opposite. I thought you had just agreed with this

Re: Why is Fedora not a Free GNU/Linux distributions?

2008-07-21 Thread Les Mikesell
Alexandre Oliva wrote: On Jul 21, 2008, Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alexandre Oliva wrote: but it's a one way trip and that copy of such code no longer has its original license terms. Can you back this up? All the evidence I've got suggests the exact opposite. I thought you

Re: Why is Fedora not a Free GNU/Linux distributions?

2008-07-21 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Jul 21, 2008, Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: However, I still don't see how the GPL requirements are technically removed once you've accepted the license that applies them to any covered component of a work. The requirements aren't removed. They don't have to be. You have

Re: Why is Fedora not a Free GNU/Linux distributions?

2008-07-21 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Jul 21, 2008, Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alexandre Oliva wrote: Alexandre Oliva wrote: This is fundamentally contradictory. If you have to choose between these two, you're choosing between promoting either FS or OSS. It is a problem the GPL creates. That's a red herring.

Re: Why is Fedora not a Free GNU/Linux distributions?

2008-07-21 Thread Les Mikesell
Alexandre Oliva wrote: Aren't you obligated by accepting this license to observe its terms which explicitly extend to the work-as-a-whole? You're not even required to accept the license. Even if you do, it grants you certain permissions over the whole and every part of it, but it doesn't

Re: Why is Fedora not a Free GNU/Linux distributions?

2008-07-21 Thread Alan Cox
The GPL meets both the FS and the OSS definition. News to me. GPLv3 has clauses which are specifically aimed at certain uses, and clauses which contain systematic biases in favour of people who have certain long standing arrangements with Microsoft. It's not IMHO an OSS licence. Free yes, OSS

Re: Why is Fedora not a Free GNU/Linux distributions?

2008-07-21 Thread jeff moe
Kevin Kofler kevin.kofler at chello.at writes: Alexandre Oliva aoliva at redhat.com writes: If you find any such problems in BLAG 8 (never formally released) or BLAG 9 (released easier today), please report them. Here's some I found at a quick glance:

Re: Why is Fedora not a Free GNU/Linux distributions?

2008-07-21 Thread Les Mikesell
Alexandre Oliva wrote: This is fundamentally contradictory. If you have to choose between these two, you're choosing between promoting either FS or OSS. the GPL is the well-known instance. The GPL meets both the FS and the OSS definition. The GPL can only meet it under very limited

SHUT THE F*CK UP ALREADY!!! Re: Why is Fedora not a Free GNU/Linux distributions?

2008-07-21 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Seriously, you freaking people are never gonna agree, and that's fine. We are not here to watch zealots clog up our inboxes with this garbage. Take it off list, or meet in the alley out back and handle it with your favorite dueling weapons or whatever, but PLEASE, SHUT UP. Jeez! -- fedora-list

Re: Why is Fedora not a Free GNU/Linux distributions?

2008-07-21 Thread Thomas Cameron
On Mon, 2008-07-21 at 04:35 -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote: The OSS movement cares about popularity and convenience, so an esential part of this movement is to accept, endorse and promote the use of software that denies users their freedoms, when that is convenient and can lure in more users.

Re: SHUT THE F*CK UP ALREADY!!! Re: Why is Fedora not a Free GNU/Linux distributions?

2008-07-21 Thread max bianco
2008/7/21 [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Seriously, you freaking people are never gonna agree, and that's fine. We are not here to watch zealots clog up our inboxes with this garbage. Take it off list, or meet in the alley out back and handle it with your favorite dueling weapons or

Re: *News Flash* Why is Fedora not a Free GNU/Linux distributions?

2008-07-21 Thread Ed Greshko
CNN reports that leading climatologists and Al Gore have confirms that all the hot air on this thread is accelerating global warming. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list

Re: *News Flash* Why is Fedora not a Free GNU/Linux distributions?

2008-07-21 Thread g
Ed Greshko wrote: CNN reports that leading climatologists and Al Gore have confirms that all the hot air on this thread is accelerating global warming. way to go ed. now you have given linux.whiz [what is that running down his leg?] kid another thread... -- tc,hago. g . in a free world

Re: SHUT THE F*CK UP ALREADY!!! Re: Why is Fedora not a Free GNU/Linux distributions?

2008-07-21 Thread g
max bianco wrote: snip Is the asterisk in the subject line supposed to confuse me? Its quite now we have 5 'gnu/linux' threads. will we see 6??? -- tc,hago. g . in a free world without fences, who needs gates. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe:

Re: SHUT THE F*CK UP ALREADY!!! Re: Why is Fedora not a Free GNU/Linux distributions?

2008-07-21 Thread g
Ed Greshko wrote: snip Sure, why not? They all make about the same level of sense. true. but, more sense than the *one* who got these 3 going. -- tc,hago. g . in a free world without fences, who needs gates. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe:

Re: Why is Fedora not a Free GNU/Linux distributions?

2008-07-21 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Jul 21, 2008, Alan Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The GPL meets both the FS and the OSS definition. News to me. http://www.opensource.org/node/193 GPLv3 has clauses which are specifically aimed at certain uses I guess it's pointless for me to ask you to substantiate this, since you're

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